Warming temperatures are wreaking havoc at elevation, upending the Winter Olympics and the tourism industry and imperiling ...

Switzerland has over 1,400 glaciers. Some of them are world famous, including the largest one, the Aletsch Glacier, which is a World Heritage Site located in the Barnese Alps. At its deepest point, it ...

OBERGOMS, Switzerland (Reuters) -Switzerland's glaciers melted considerably over the past 12 months to log their fourth-largest reduction in ice volume on record, monitoring body GLAMOS said on ...

High in the mountains, glaciers once kept their cool—literally. The massive ice bodies create their own cold microclimates that retard melting even as the rest of the planet warms. But an exhaustive ...

Scientists set a date for the peak disappearance of glaciers: up to 4,000 could be lost in a single historic year.

U.S. Olympic skiers and scientists explain the sharp differences between natural snow and machine-made snow, from the science ...

The Swiss Alps have changed significantly in just a few years. Snowy glaciers are now revealing bare rocky summits where new species replace the ones that no longer feel at home. Swiss glaciers are ...